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Hu, Yanjuan; van Veen, Klaas – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
Coaching is increasingly emphasised as a promising feature of professional development, yet concrete understanding of this complex process is lacking. This study investigates an observation-based coaching process by interviewing coaches and teachers from a three-year longitudinal PD programme. Findings indicate that coaches often supplemented…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Coaching (Performance), Teacher Educators, Secondary School Teachers
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Dogan, Selçuk; Adams, Alyson – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
This study addresses gaps in the research about the effect of professional development (PD) quality on effective instruction by taking a broad perspective when defining professional learning of teachers and by providing a theory-based explanation for effective instruction. Using a large-scale data set, Teaching and Learning International Survey…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Administrator Surveys, Teacher Surveys
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Cooper, Rebecca; Fitzgerald, Angela; Loughran, John; Phillips, Michael; Smith, Kathy – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
Professional learning is a significant focus of discussion in most schools but it is not all that common for these conversations to be informed by teachers' needs and expectations. Instead, they tend to be driven by external factors, such as accreditation, mandated professional development requirements and policies. Based on an in-depth study of a…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Educational Needs, Secondary School Teachers
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Hsieh, Betina – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
Previous work on new teacher professional identity has focused on identity as a process of negotiation between individual and contextual factors. These negotiations are often filled with a struggle between personal agency and structures that prevent the enactment of an ideal professional self. This study introduces and discusses three teacher…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Role, Beginning Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Dalgiç, Gülay; Bakioglu, Aysen – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine with whom Turkish and Danish school principals engage in reflective practice and how this interaction helps to develop them as reflective practitioners. A phenomenological approach was followed in the study. Data were collected from 37 school principals (24 from Istanbul and 13 from Copenhagen) who were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Reflection, Phenomenology
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Fenwick, Ashley – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
This study considers two discourses of current relevance to national and international educators--early professional learning (EPL) and curriculum change. Induction arrangements for early career teachers (ECTs), EPL and informal learning have received considerable attention in the past few years. Changes to induction inevitably have knock-on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Interviews, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Brantlinger, Andrew; Sherin, Miriam Gamoran; Linsenmeier, Katherine A. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
This paper examines a group of secondary mathematics teachers who met 16 times to discuss video excerpts of their teaching. The explicit purpose of the meetings was to assist the teachers in preparing video for submission to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Analysis of meeting transcripts reveals that teachers engaged in…
Descriptors: National Standards, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development, Mathematics Instruction
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Fox, Alison; Wilson, Elaine – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
This study, drawing on the voice of beginning teachers, seeks to illuminate their experiences of building professional relationships as they become part of the teaching profession. A networking perspective was taken to expose and explore the use of others during the first three years of a teacher's workplace experience. Three case studies, set…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Teaching (Occupation), Beginning Teachers
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Hennessy, Sara; Deaney, Rosemary – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
The "T-MEDIA" project analysed and documented how teachers exploit the use of projection technologies--data projectors and interactive whiteboards (IWBs)--to support learning in secondary-school subject lessons. The research involved collaboration between university researchers and four pairs of UK teachers (of English, mathematics,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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Oplatka, Izhar – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2005
Teachers' career transitions and their positive as well as negative outcomes were left relatively untouched in the literature and research on education. In an effort to fill in gaps in knowledge, this paper reports the findings of a life story study that explored inter-school transitions during the career cycle of mid-career women teachers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Females, Career Development